Example sentences of "else to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk . |
| 2 | There was nothing else to be done . |
| 3 | With the Captain in his present mood , there was nothing else to be done . |
| 4 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 5 | They will be so contaminated with the virus that there is nothing else to be done . |
| 6 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 7 | But Hugh of Lyons counselled acceptance , and indeed there was little else to be done . |
| 8 | I am sorry , but there 's nothing else to be done . |
| 9 | But there always seemed to be something else to be done about the farm . |
| 10 | But I wanted to do it , because I did n't want anyone else to be speaking my ideas when it was such a personal statement . |
| 11 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 12 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 13 | " There was nothing else to be learned from Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 14 | Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose . |
| 15 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 16 | No I 've got nothing else to be doing at this moment . |
| 17 | He mentions Teucrium marum growing in the warm borders of Kensington palace Gardens in the early part of the century , clipped to conical forms three feet high , but there is little else to be found about eighteenth century palace gardens in the Dictionary . |
| 18 | After some discussion , they felt that there was nothing else to be found on this site until the next ploughing and they would give it a miss until then . |
| 19 | The school is the type that has not adapted itself to alternative , non-academic needs and which , in general , is not sensitive to the fact that pupils are people with as much right as anyone else to be respected . |
| 20 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |